Expert group meeting on international migration and development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico City

Date:

30 November 2005 to 02 December 2005

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs is organizing, in collaboration with the National Population Council (CONAPO) of Mexico and the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean, an Expert Group Meeting on International Migration and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of the Meeting is to discuss the interrelationships between international migration and development from the perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a view to contribute to a number of United Nations events on International Migration and Development that will be held in 2006, notably the thirty-ninth session of the Commission on Population and Development, which will have “International Migration and Development” as its special theme; the meeting of the Special Commission on Population and Development at the thirtieth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the high-level dialogue on International Migration and Development of the General Assembly of the United Nations to be held at its sixty-first session in 2006. With the support of UNFPA, representatives of Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean will attend the expert group meeting to benefit from the technical discussion of topics they will address in the various United Nations fora in 2006.